Andiferous wrote:Masterghostknight: I do believe that basic logic is the foundation for philosophical argument. To be honest, when I studied logic my trouble started just after the point when arguments were reduced to symbols, made more and more complex, and eventually looked like calculus.

That happens very often but you shouldn't feel overwelmed by it. Actual phrases are not necessary to follow the logical rules, the benefit of being as generic as they can be is that you will know how it fundamentaly works and you can apply that to anything and everything.The sameway we do not laern addition by memorizing every possible combination of numbers, you learn how it functions and you put the numbers you want later (sameway you learn how logic functions and you put the sentences you want later).

"I have an irrefutable argument for the existence of...." NO, STOP! You are already wrong!